25 April - 8 May 2004

Exhibition managed by galerialuzosorio

CHINO SORIA

The work of Chino Soria that we take this opportunity to present belongs to the period 1998-2003 and explores the essence of the digital world, which is to say the concept of infinite combination, of infinite possibility. During this period, a great part of his work was concentrated on the use of a printing system (lenticular) that allows the materialization of an animation in a single image, which varies according to how the spectator moves in front of it. Beyond the work’s natural association with a revisit of op-art, what stands out is it’s captivating method of reading. The spectator is forcefully invited to participate in the incessant spectacle of the work, a method of reading that brings to mind the telling of cinematography or television, yet one cannot passively attend as the action constructs and reconstructs itself with our own gaze.

The forms with which the artist works refers to a strange symbiosis between the world of high technology and the most primitive and microscopic origin of life. In contemplating them, we perhaps attend the representation, the work of our own observation, of the spectacle of the creation of infinite universes, given that in each work there underlies the possibility of infinite works.

Biography

Chino Soria was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1964 and currently lives in Los Angeles, USA. He has participated in numerous individual and group exhibitions in places such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ibiza, Spain, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the Gallery Ujpesti Gyermek-es Ifjusagi Haz in Budapest, Hungary. His works have been in numerous international fairs such as Art-Miami, Estampa Madrid, Scope New York, and ArteBA Buenos Aires. His works have been included in numerous public and private collections.